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While Crier is articulate, she gave the opening installments more than her share of bumpy moments, including one glaring error. Reading a story about alleged CIA action against foreign governments, she indicated that socialist Salvador Allende Gossens had ruled Chile "from 1963 to 1973." As any news junkie would be likely to remember, Allende came to power in 1970, amid criticism from President Richard Nixon. Co-anchor Shaw so far sounds muted in his enthusiasm. Says he: "What she's been doing has been very adequate...
Earlier in the year, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported an "encounter" between a milkmaid in the region of Perm and a cosmic creature that looked like a man but was "taller than average with shorter legs." Last week the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda declared that not only had an Abominable Snowman been caught stealing apples in the Saratov region but researchers had "registered the influence of energies" at a site in Perm, leading a geologist to conclude that they had discovered a landing field for flying saucers. The same story transcribed a telepathic discourse between Pavel Mukhortov, a journalist from...
Such is the pace of political change in Hungary these days that last year's political blasphemy is this week's new truth. In keeping with the wholesale undoing of the past, the ruling party, formerly known as the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, is no longer officially Communist. At a five-day congress that ended in Budapest last week, 1,274 delegates voted overwhelmingly to take the Communism out of socialism and become the Hungarian Socialist Party. They also sent hard-line General Secretary Karoly Grosz into political oblivion and repudiated much of four decades of Communist rule, including...
Much of the impetus for reform flowed from the fact that early next year Hungary is to have the most open balloting in the East bloc in four decades. At least a dozen parties will be competing with the Hungarian Socialist Party for the 374 seats in Parliament. Reformers within the Communist ranks contended that without a fresh image, they stand no chance at the polls. In four recent by-elections, the Democratic Forum, which has only 20,000 registered members, in contrast to the 700,000 claimed by the Communist Party, has easily defeated candidates...
Halfway through an 18-day re-election campaign, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez finds himself attacked on several fronts. Once friendly trade unions complain that the Socialist leader has forsaken his party's traditional ideology by freezing social benefits and allowing 16% unemployment. Businessmen, who still applaud Gonzalez's successful campaign to attract foreign investment and reduce inflation, now fret about high interest rates and a growing trade deficit...